Columbia # A 93 2213633 and A 93 1213874 Nagasaki Butterfly and China night - Japanese - undated- appears to a mid 1940's label (just a guess it could earlier or later.) I cannot read Japanese so no further information is available. Very nice singing and music.


This audio is part of the collection: 78 RPMs & Cylinder Recordings
It also belongs to collection: Music & Arts

Artist/Composer: undeterminable
Keywords: brrc; Nagasaki Butterfly; China night; Japanese

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Reviewer: Gunny@touch of tao - - February 6, 2012
Subject: China Night == Shina no Yoru
This song became popular in Japan during the 1930s and continued after WW2 to be popular with the GIs and was easy to corrupt by calling it She ain't got no yo-yo

This is one of the most popular versions of this song

Hope there are some clever computer whiz out there that upload more Japanese Songs

I have a bunch like 3000 but don"t know what to do

Misora Hibari Harumi Midori Frank Nagi are a few

I seem to like the ENKA style of the 1940 thru 1980

Enough Sayonara

Reviewer: mr.anger - - November 18, 2010
Subject: Flaming Creatures
The China Night song is the One used in the rape scene in jack smith's flaming creatures
had no idea what song that was

Reviewer: jevalles - - November 16, 2010
Subject: A singer in two antipathetic worlds
The artist, 胡美芳，or Hu MeiFang, was of mixed Chinese and Japanese parentage, born in Wakayama, Japan. In 1941, the father was accused of being a Chinese spy, so the family moved to Shanghai. Hu Meifang entered Beijing Art School in 1943, at that time under Japanese control. Although she sang with dance bands in Beijing and recorded there, she was persecuted after the war for her Japanese connection, and relocated under a false married name to Japan. In post-war Japan she established a singing career in film and record, and became a Japanese citizen, returning to visit her family in Shanghai only after 34 years. She was for a long time the only Chinese singing star in Japan. She later made singing tours of Taiwan and Southeast Asia in the 1970's and died on November 7, 2009 at 82.

Reviewer: calydon - - January 31, 2010
Subject: Thanks and credits / lyrics
I just wanted to thank the contributor for uploading this, as it is the only way that I have to hear the recording of my grandfather's old vinyl album that he brought back from the Korean War.

edit: The credits for this album were in a song sheet translation located inside the slipcover.

Transcribed exactly as printed:

China Night
Verse: Y. Saijo

Shina no yoru Shina no yoru yoMusic: N. Takeoka
Arr: K. Matuo
Direct: T. Nemura

Singee: Ho Mei Fan
Columbia Orchestra

Minato no akari murasaki no yo ni
Noboru Junk no yume no fune
Ah-ah wasurare nu kokyu no ne-e
Shina no yoru yume no koru

Shina no yoru Shina no yoru yo
Yanagi no madoni rantan yurete
Aka torikago Shina Musume
Ah-ah yarusenai-i ai no utah
Shina no yora yume no yoru

Shina no yoru Shina no yoru yo
Kimi matsu yoi wa obashima no ame ani
Hana mo chiru chiru beni mo chiru
Ah-ah wakarete mo wasuraryoh ka
Shina no yoru yume no yoru

Nagasaki Butterfly

Verse: K. Fujiura
Music: N. Takeoka
Arr: K. Matuo
Direct: T. Nemura

Singer: Ho Mei Fan
Columbia Orchestra

Nagasaki Nagasaki minami no machi yo
Maru ni yano ji no Marria-bune
Mukashi Ohige no Bateren O

Matta Maruyama ishi datami
Akai chochin hi ga tsuite
Ima wa namida no Ochoh-san

Nagasaki Nagasaki minami no machi yo
Minato soyo-soyo minamikaze
Kaze ni tayori ga nai yueni
Itoshi kawai i adesugata
Oki o nagamete senobi suru
Tare o matsunoka Ochoh-san

Nagasaki Nagasaki nasake no machi yo
Nasake hitosuji tatsu Kemuri
Are wa 'merican ikusa-bune
Shinuhodo tsurai hito tsurete
Sate mo kanashii Ochoh-san